In the Quarterly Digital Intelligence Briefing: Digital Trends for 2013 by eConsultancy, produced in partnership with Adobe, they have surveyed around 700 businesses to find out ther top digital marketing priorities in 2013.

MILAN, Italy — This week in Milan, all eyes were on Gucci’s new creative director, the formerly unknown Alessandro Michele, who had worked behind the scenes with the recently ousted former creative director Frida Giannini and who has now been thrust into the global fashion spotlight and tasked with revitalising the ailing Gucci brand. For his first womenswear show, Michele transported us to a kind of train station, staged, as always, in the Gucci show venue in Piazza Oberdan, but transformed from the single runway format that had been part of the Gucci show formula for years, beginning under Tom … More

"Gillo Pontecorvo’s revolutionary classic The Battle of Algiers ends with an image so emblematic to the comprehension of the Algerian woman, through its powerful homage to her legacy in her society. As with many films from the postcolonial era of North Africa, there’s an intriguing array of female characters, whose journeys towards both personal and social emancipation remain timeless. In light of their reflections as cinematic figures (evoking multiple images of an authentic social discourse) I felt compelled to revisit notable classic and contemporary portrayals, as their spirits may even arouse our own…"

Their research, a hydroponic plant growth system that relies on centripetal force to work in microgravity, almost ended there, until they met someone with industry experience and an alternative way to raise capital....

An “insidious conspiracy” of laws is keeping women out of the workforce around the world, costing the global economy badly needed growth, said Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund.

It’s not a great time to be a working mother in the UK. Or so you could conclude from the news that one in five parents are considering reducing the amount they work or giving up altogether in 2015 because childcare is so costly. Oh, and just43% of councils in England are fulfilling their legal obligation to provide childcare for working parents, compared with 54% last year. Central government grants to fund services like childcare are being cut year on year – up to 25% in some cases according to one council source – which means that local authorities will struggle to pay for even these meagre provisions over the next decade. And amid the din of election promises, no party has come up with a compelling and convincing plan for making childcare affordable – mostly because no party has made it a serious priority.

New research suggests that racial disparities and other biased outcomes in medicine, the criminal justice system, and other areas, can be explained by unconscious attitudes and stereotypes. But how do we get rid of subtle racial biases?

It's St. Valentine’s Day, also called as Valentine's Day, a season celebrated on February 14 every year. It is a feast observed in several countries all over the world, albeit most of them it is not a holiday . I LOVE YOU. The little but strong words which are widely spoken with immense affection around the world. There are individuals expressed it in many different ways. Some say it through singing and dancing, writing a letter or a poem and many to mentions

2M Views On GooglePlusYou may think, "2M views so what, many have more than that," and you would be right and wrong. Right because many friends including @Mark Traphagenand @Neil Ferree(to name just two) have many more G+ followers and views than little ole me.

The point of Social Media Marketing is not to win a horse race. The point is to communicate YOUR message in order to create scaled online community. Once your community more than pays for itself your "degrees of freedom" open up.

If you know of another "moderate effort, HUGE return" tool please share and I will use that one too. In the meantime G+ may be the best "do less, get more" online marketing tool ever created. G+ is Davids stone helping to slay giants - how else can a tribe the 4500 generate views of more than 2M?

So get out your sling and load up some G+ rocks today and your digital marketing will be slaying giants soon too :). M

The companies hope to draw women into an industry typically dominated by men.

malek's insight:

Fifteen percent of Facebook Inc.'s employees working in tech jobs and 31 percent of all employees are women, according to diversity figures the company released last year. At LinkedIn Corp., women comprise 17 percent of its tech employees and 39 percent of employees overall. Most Silicon Valley companies have similar demographics.

72 short videos spotlight sexual harassment on the streets of Mexico City. The piece documents talking to local women, creating posters of their images, and wheatpasting them around the city, and showcases video clips of dozens of Mexican women speaking about their experiences with street harassment in a country that was ranked number one globally in sexual violence against women by a 2010 United Nations report

malek's insight:

Street harassment is an enormous problem in Mexico City and the country as a whole, where rates of sexual violence against women are some of the highest in the world.

Determining when and where to spend your Mother’s Day search advertising budget can be every bit as challenging as finding the perfect gift for your own mother. Bing Ads is here to help. With the latest insights on what mothers unwrapped on their...

malek's insight:

Did you know that Mother’s Day ranks third in consumer spending after Christmas and Back-to-School among retail holidays in the U.S.?

An Iowa woman who was fired for breastfeeding filed a lawsuit against her employer for sex discrimination. Unfortunately, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the suit because of the trial court's findings that "breastfeeding-related firings aren't sexist because men can lactate too."

New mom Angela Ames gave birth to her second child in May 2010. When she returned from maternity leave two months later, the Nationwide Insurance Company employee discovered she was unable to pump milk at work. According to court documents, Ames was denied access to the lactation room because she did not fill out the required paperwork before she returned to her job. In Ames' defense, she was not informed about the paperwork until her first day back.

The not-quite human voice that emanates from your phone or GPS or other device is, more often than not, female. It's an obvious pattern, and one that many have claimed has a simple technical explanation: Female voices are easier to understand. The only problem is that it's not true.

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